Our 2025 season

Run dates: April 3-6 & 10-13, 2025

Directed by Elizabeth Shaffer

It's 1848, and Edgar Allan Poe is just coming off the spectacular success of "The Raven." Unfortunately, it's only earned him a grand total of nine dollars. So when a wealthy dowager commissions him to write her a poem for the vast sum of one hundred dollars, he leaps at the chance. Only problem: the man who shows up to write the poem isn't Poe, he's Poe's mailman, and he's on a quest to woo the dowager's spinster niece. Playing Poe is harder than it looks, though, especially when your mustache keeps falling off, the teenage grand-daughter of the house is lusting after you, and Poe's arch-nemesis, Rufus Griswold, just happens to be dropping by to settle old scores. It’s a freewheeling, closet-hiding, door-slamming farce with an hilarious touch of the macabre!  

Edgar/Richard Muffinbridge :  Eric Landuyt 

Edgar Allen Poe (the real one) :  Derek Bolme 

Rufus Griswold:   Eric Friedman 

Henry Whitford:  Jacob Lund 

Brinsley:  David Shaffer 

Mary:  Cali Van Zandt 

Helena Dowling:  Elizabeth Hulsbrink 

Sarah  Dowling:  Dana Skiles 

Abigail  Dowling:  Shyan DeVoss 

Director:  Elizabeth Shaffer

Stage Manager:  Pat Kelly

Light and sound designer: Dana Skiles 

Light and sound operator: Lena DeLellis 

Costumes: – Suzanne Rakestraw 

Set builders: – Jim Skiles, Mike Skiles 

Run dates: May29- June 1 & 5-8, 2025

Directed by Megan McConville

Truvy Jones runs a successful beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all her regular clients have a standing Saturday appointment. Along with her anxious and eager assistant, Annelle, Truvy styles the hair of many of the women about town: wealthy widow and former first lady of Chinquapin, Clairee Belcher; local curmudgeon Ouiser Boudreaux; intelligent and compassionate career woman M’Lynn and her daughter Shelby, “the prettiest girl in town.” Shelby’s engagement is the talk of the town, but the joy and excitement of her wedding later turns to concern as she faces a risky pregnancy and a myriad of health complications. As the ladies of Chinquapin make their way past life’s many hurdles, they draw comfort and strength from one another, along with a fair amount of verbal ribbing. 

Truvy Jones - Jessica Moore 

Annelle Dupuy-Desoto -  Megan Abell

Shelby Eatenton Latcherie -  Leslie Day  

M’Lynn Eatenton -  Suzanne Rakestraw 

Ouiser Bourdeaux -  Heidi Hamer

Clairee Belcher -  Pam Kobre  

Director - Megan McConville

Stage Manager -  Terri Nelson 

Crew - Bella McConville 

Light & sound designer/operator - Jennifer Kingry 

Set builders - Jim Skiles, Mike Skiles 

Run dates: July 10- 13 & 17-20, 2025

Directed by Tom Morrow

A tribute to the English farces of the 1930s and ’40s, Ken Ludwig’s A Fox on the Fairway takes audiences on a riotous ride that recalls the classics of the Marx Brothers. Set amid the leafy greens of Quail Valley Country Club, the story unfolds on the day Quail Valley faces its oldest rival, nearby Crouching Squirrel Golf and Racquet Club, for the golf tournament of the decade.  Battle lines are drawn and the two clubs, like Greece and Troy, assemble their bravest heroes and play on to the final, madcap putt.  Along the way these arch-rivals get entangled in wagers, injuries, and romance with uproarious mayhem as they do whatever it takes to save face, win their bets and get their lives in order.  You’ll be laughing all the way to the 18th hole! 

Dickie:  David Beeson

Pamela:  Jessica Moore 

Bingham:  Samuel Carrington

Louise:  Sarah Carrington

Justin:  David Shaffer

Muriel:  Jackie Patterson

Director:  Tom Morrow

Stage Manager:  Jim Driscoll

Set Builders:  Jim Skiles, Mike Skiles 

Lights and Sound Design: Dana Skiles 

Props: Ann Keeney-Grafft, Jackie Skiles

Run dates: August 14-17 & 21-24, 2025

Directed by Jennifer Kingry

In the not-too-distant future with artificial intelligence deeply embedded in our daily lives, 85-year-old Marjorie struggles with disparate, fading memories. That is, until the appearance of Walter, a mysterious and charming young visitor programmed to help Marjorie recall her past. Jordan Harrison’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize Finalist play burrows into thoughtful questions of the digital age: what would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance to re-write our own stories? Will we be any less human, once computers know us better than we know ourselves? This wondrous, touching, and clever play explores the mysteries of human identity, collective family memory, and the limits – if any – of what technology can replace.    

Suggested for PG-14, with mature themes involving aging, grief and self-harm.  

"Jordan Harrison's elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling play… keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it. — The New York Times

" …has all the hallmarks of the best science fiction; it's clever in conceit, alive with humor, surprising in its turns, and terribly haunting by the time the lights go out." — The New Yorker

"Marjorie Prime…is primarily concerned with something eternal: the way our humanity is shaped and warped by the mysterious ebbs and flows of memory." — Los Angeles Times

Marjorie – Jalayne Riewerts 

Tess – Lorrie Lord

Jon – Kevin Babbit

Walter Prime – Eric Friedman

Director– Jennifer Kingry

Stage Manager – Cali Van Zandt

Set Builders – Jim Skiles, Mike Skiles

Light & Sound Design – Jennifer Kingry

Stage Crew --  

• Julie Bauman 
• Perry Farley 
• Larry Lord 
• Mimi Sweetser  
• Janet VanDerSchaaf